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02:30 am GMT - Tue, February 25, 2014
Technology Review A $629 Ultrasecure Phone Aims to Protect Personal Data
With a heavy emphasis on encryption and strong controls over all data from your phone, Blackphone launches amid intense interest at Mobile World Congress.A phone touted as the first to put privacy and...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, February 24, 2014
Technology Review Augmented Reality Gets to Work
Augmented reality hasnt yet lived up to its promise, but it could catch on in situations where it makes employees more efficient....
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review 50 Smartest Companies 2014
These businesses are setting the pace of innovation. Theyre shaking up markets or creating new ones....
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review Why Illumina is No. 1
After outflanking and outlasting competitors, it is on top of the genome-sequencing businessjust as that market is about to soar in importance.Almost 25 years after the Human Genome Project launched, ...
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review Driving Innovation
The electric car companys CTO explains whats going on under the hood.Car companies have struggled to sell electric cars. Tesla Motors is the exception. Last year, the first full year of sales for its ...
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review Marginally Useful
Bitcoin itself may fail as a currency, but the underlying technology is beginning to suggest valuable new applications.Bitcoin, a purely digital currency, is backed by no commodity and governed by no ...
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review 50 Smartest Companies 2014
These businesses are setting the pace of innovation. Theyre shaking up markets or creating new ones....
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review Googles Quest
It may have finally found the missing piece it needs to move beyond relying solely on advertising.When it comes to developing software, few companies can match Googles prowess. It doesnt just have the...
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
A new nerve interface gives a sense of touch to a prosthetic limb.Igor Spetics hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job. Fo...
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review Marginally Useful
Bitcoin itself may fail as a currency, but the underlying technology is beginning to suggest valuable new applications.Bitcoin, a purely digital currency, is backed by no commodity and governed by no ...
10:05 am GMT - Tue, February 18, 2014
Technology Review Storing the Sun
Aquion manufactures cheap, long-lasting batteries for storing renewable energy.A new kind of battery invented by Jay Whitacre, a professor of materials science at Carnegie Mellon University and founde...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, February 17, 2014
Technology Review Glass, Darkly
For its wearable computer to be accepted, Google must convince people that the device isnt creepy.Google Glass shares much of its electronics and software with the smartphone, but its a very different...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, February 14, 2014
Technology Review Show Me the Bitcoins
Though still volatile, Bitcoin is surging in value and being spent more freely; its also inspired a legion of competitors....
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, February 13, 2014
Technology Review The Worlds Most Powerful 3-D Laser Imager
A new military LIDAR chip shows promise for faster and more precise aerial mappingdoing in minutes what used to take days.Airborne laser scanning has produced stunning maps and insights in the last fe...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, February 13, 2014
Technology Review Samsungs Tizen Will Hit the Ground Running with Android Apps
As the worlds leading smartphone maker prepares to launch its own OS, new software will automatically port as many as hundreds of thousands of Android apps.If app availability is the make-or-break fac...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, February 11, 2014
Technology Review Genome Surgery
Precise and easy ways to rewrite human genes could finally provide the tools that researchers need to understand and cure some of our most deadly genetic diseases.Over the last decade, as DNA-sequenci...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, February 10, 2014
Technology Review Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
The rejuvenated research labs at Yahoo are investigating ways to predict what users want and new forms of mobile hardware.There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must d...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, February 7, 2014
Technology Review Phones, Browsers, and Search Engines Get a Privacy Overhaul
Small companies are showing that the technology we rely on can be redesigned to protect our dataand that consumers are interested.As the reach of the Internet has grown, so has the mediums favored bu...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, February 6, 2014
Technology Review Zynga Hopes to Breathe New Life into Flat Games Characters
Zynga is switching strategy with animation technology that makes characters move more naturally.The future of troubled gaming company Zynga may owe more to a charming, if clumsy, ninja than to the pix...
12:30 am GMT - Thu, February 6, 2014
Technology Review A Robotic Hand, This Time with Feeling
A man with a robotic hand can now feel varying degrees of pressure thanks to an implant that connects with the nerves in his arm.A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years a...
01:45 am GMT - Wed, February 5, 2014
Technology Review Why Google Kept Motorolas Research Lab
Motorola Mobilitys sale to Lenovo only looks like a lossthe patents were cheap, and Google might yet advance wearables, home devices, and modular phone hardware.Googles $2.9 billion sale of Motorola M...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, February 4, 2014
Technology Review Burning the U.K.s Plutonium Stockpile Could Fast-Track New Reactors
GEs nuclear waste-burning PRISM reactors get a new chance at commercialization.Pressure to reduce the U.K.s plutonium stockpile, along with generous premiums for new nuclear power generation, is breat...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, February 3, 2014
Technology Review Solar Thermal Technology Poses Challenges for Drought-Stricken California
Reducing water consumption at solar thermal plants raises costs and decreases power production.Californias ambitious goal of getting a third of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030 is...
02:30 am GMT - Fri, January 31, 2014
Technology Review Q&A: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston
How the wunderkind of cloud storage deals with government snooping and recruits more geeks.Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the c...